Projects
The Giza Project at Harvard University (in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Town of Nebo Archaeological Project
ZIPIR Turkish: Istanbul Streets Walls’ Writing
Jara'id: A Chronology of Arabic Periodicals (1800-1929)
News of Cairo - A text database of articles in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish on the urban development of Cairo between 1828 and 1914 from the Egyptian Gazette, the official newspaper of the Egyptian government.
Project Naggari - The Literary World of A Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Sheikh
Coptica at Harvard - The platform furnishes primary sources from late antiquity through the modern day, engaging adjacent fields such as Byzantine, Islamic, and Middle Eastern studies. Drawn from across Harvard Library, its growing collections comprise ancient papyri, medieval chronicles, modern magazines, and more.
The Forgotten Cities - Thomas Jacoby Images of Early Christian Architecture in Greater Syria
The Giza Project at Harvard University
Town of Nebo
A multidisciplinary research project investigating trade, religion, and landscape at Khirbet al-Mukhayyat, Jordan. This project offers students the opportunity to participate in a field school to gain a hands-on experience in an archaeological project. There are also on-campus opportunities for students to be involved in the research projects which take place at Wilfrid Laurier University. For more information about this, click the “Current Research” tab.
ZIPIR (Pilot)
ZIP DOWN TO THE ISTANBUL Street’s Wall writing for ‘zıpır’ Turkish” is an awarded project at Harvard for Turkish learners. As a part of the Turkish curriculum, a sustainable web portal was designed as a digital resource of photographs of Istanbul Wall Writings to boost Turkish knowledge in creative, fun, engaging, surprising, melodic, and informative ways.
Project Naggari - The Literary World of A Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Sheikh
An introduction into a nineteenth-century Egyptian sheikh's literary world. The sheikh in question is Muṣṭafā Salāmah al-Najjārī (d. 1286/1870), one of the small masters of (Ottoman) Arabic poetry and a pioneering editor and entrepeneur in the early Arabic print market in late Ottoman Egypt.
